Casio WVA 470 In Depth Review

My Behind The Scenes video about the making of this episode is here... https://youtu.be/Ronm6XBzvQc

This episode of The Good Timekeeping Show is an in depth review of the Casio Wave Ceptor WVA-470. The watch uses Casio's Module 5052. This is a discontinued watch but I offer this in depth review because there are still folks who have them and I've seen them currently for sale (pre-owned) on eBay. The replacement model which is currently available new (as of 2020) is the Casio Waveceptor WVA-M640. There's also a new WVA-M630 which is available in the international market in a wide variety of color combinations and styles. Another new option (as of 2020) would be the watches in Casio's Lineage collection including LCW-M100 and LCW-M170 watches.

But let's focus on this older watch for right now. This watch features an analog and digital display. It has Casio's "Tough Solar" power technology. The watch face contains a solar cell which automatically charges an internal battery with normal exposure to normal amounts of daytime lighting. My first "Tough Solar" watch from Casio is still running strong after about 14 years without ever having to worry about replacing its battery. The watch in this video has been running trouble-free for just over 7 years.

The Wave Ceptor designation means that this watch has a built-in radio receiver. It can receive Atomic Time data from WWVB in the United States or from the two Atomic Time transmitters in Japan. (The newer version can also receive Atomic Time from sources in China, Germany and the UK.) If you are using this watch in a part of the world which is too far away to receive the data from those transmitters then the watch will function as a normal quartz watch with accuracy to within 15 seconds per month. But if you are in a place where reception of Atomic Time data is successful, then your watch can double-check itself every night and keep itself accurate to within fractions of a second all the time! It can even make Daylight Saving Time changes automatically.

This watch has three daily alarms, an hourly signal, a World Time mode (to display a second time zone while the analog hands continue to show the time in a home time zone) and a 100-minute stopwatch.

In this video I also show how to adjust the analog hands just in case they fall out of alignment with the watch's digital time. Things like magnetic interference and physical shocks can cause the hands to display the wrong time, so Casio built a feature into this watch allowing the user to adjust and correct the hands. In the 7 years I've owned this watch there was only one time when the hands were incorrect. I used the hand setting function to correct the hands and there has been no trouble with hand alignment since then.

Видео Casio WVA 470 In Depth Review канала Greg Anderson - The Good Timekeeper